Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1887-05-18
Legislature.

Legislature.
The proceedings of the Legislature for
the 10th and 18th inst, will be found on
the first page.
SENATE.-Thursday May 18th.
Senate bill No. 80, patron Mr.. Starke,
passed the Senate to-day. This bill pro-
vides that the defendant upon any warrant
brought on a contract for the purchase
money for fertilizers shall have the right to
remove the case as of right to the County
or Circuit Court. Its purpose is to give re-
lief to the farmers of the tobacco sections
of Virginia, who will have great difficulty
in paying for their fertilizers unless they
can get their tobacco on the market. A
debtor who owes more than 500 for ferti-
lizers, and who would generally be respon-
sible, must be sued in the Circuit Court.
The effect of the bill is to put debtor who
owes less than 800 for fertilizers upon
practically the same footing. 1t secures
| him, on his motion, the benefit of the juris-
diction in the Circuit Court. The removal
is without the cost of copying papers, but
| the papers in the case are transferred.
The General Assembly to-day elected
Randall M. Brown judge of the Fifteenth
| judicial circuit.
HOUSE. Thursday, May 18th.
The bill providing for the payment of
| 81 500 to each of the revisers of the Code
was passed to its engrossment in the House
| to-day.
The Senate bill to pay the Judgment OBJ
tanned by the Kendall Bank Note Company
against the Board of Sinking Fund Com
missioners was passed by the House to-day
by vote of "a to 25. One vote less would
have killed the bill.
The bill to appropriate $4,000 for the
Western Lunatic Asylum came up on its
passage in the House to-day. Mr.. Echols
had substitute for this bill, which provid-
ed for an appropriation Of Sc 900. The bill
was defeated for failure to get constitu-
tional vote.
Mr.. Echols moved to reconsider, and Mr..
Curlett moved to pass that motion by,
which was agreed to.
SENATE.-Friday, May 18th.
On motion of Mr.. Koiner,
Resoired, That on Monday next, and
daily thereafter, the Senate will convene at
the hour of II o'clock A. M.
| FROM THE HOUSE.
| Messages were received from the House
by special messengers that the House had
| passed the following bills:
To appropriate $4,000 to the Western
Lunatic Asylum for improvements.
To amend and re-enact the charter of
Stephen City, Frederick county.
To appropriate $72, 900 to pay the claims
allowed disabled soldiers and marines I'M
der an act approved February "a, 1884.
| To authorize the revisers of the Code 10
prepare an index of their work and to su-
pervise the printing of the same, and to pro-
vide compensation to them for such work.
All of these bills, except the last one,
were subsequently taken up and passed.
This one was referred to the Finance Com
mittee.
| THE CODE.
| Mr.. Heaton, chairman Of the Committee
on Revision of the Code, asked the Senate
to take up out of its order House Bill No.
314, to revise, arrange, and consolidate into
a code the general statutes Of the Common
wealth.
| The bill as it came from the House was
passed by the recorded vote of 26 toS.
HoUsE.-Friday, May 18th.
| AMENDMENT TO LOCAL-oPTIoN LAW.
Mr.. Downing moved to take up the
amendment which he had proposed to the
localoption law by which d1stiler is al
| lOWCu W sell lilo llQuOE uo fudk6S Outslu0 VI
his district, if said district has voted for To-
cal option.
Mr.. Fulkerson spoke in favor of the sub
stitute he had proposed-the repeal of the
local option law.
| Mr.. Tavenner, of Frederick, said the To-
cal-option law had worked we'll in his coun-
| ty and he hoped the substitute would not be
adopted. He favored Mr. Downing's
amendment.
Mr.. Fulkerson's substitute was rejected
ayes Is, noes 49-after which Mr.. Down
ing's amendment was ordered to its en-
grOssment.
| PAYING THE REvIsERs.
The special order providing for paying
the revsers of the Code the amount due
them Isl, SEQ each) came up.
The bill passed-ayes, 81; noes, 21.
| WESTERN LUNATIc ASYLUM.
The bill appropriating So, 900 to the West
ern Lunatic Asylum for improvements came
up as special order and was passed-ayes,
Sc; noes, Z.
DISABLED SOLDIERS:
| The bill appropriating s72, 600 to pay the
claims of disabled Confederate soldiers on
file in the Auditors Office and unpaid came
up next.
THE CODE GOES TO THE GOVERNOR.
| Senator Lovenstein communicated to the
House the passage by the Senate of the bill
''to arrange and consolidate into code the
general statutes of the Commonwealth COM
monty known as the Code"
The Code now goes to the Governor.
| THE REVENUE AND SINKING FUND.
| Mr.. A. Fulkerson's bill to authorize the
Auditor of Public Accounts to borrow
money to support the government, to meet
a casual deficit in the revenue, to pay the
interest On her past liabilities, and to create
a sinking fund to pay the principal of the
public debt, came up as a speciel order.
After the adoption of sundry amendments
perfecting the bill offered by Mr.. Fulker-
son, the bill was ordered to its engrossment.
| SENATE Saturday, May 18th.
| RAILRoAD-oFFICE BILL.
Senate Bill No. $3.50, requiring railroad
companies chartered by the State to have
their general offices in the State, came up
on its second reading.
| Nh. Elyson asked that the bill might
have immediate consideration. He hoped
that there would be unanimity of opinion
as to the merits of this bill, and he thought
it ought not to provoke protracted discus
sion.
! Mr.. Heaton said that senator opposed to
this bill was absent; it would in any event
provoke discussion, and he hoped the bill
would be passed by.
| Mr.. Elyson then moved that it be made
the special order for Tuesday at l O'Clock,
| which was done.
CONNECTS ON THE CAPITOL SQUARE.
Senate Bill No. 1913, providing for the
substitution of free labor for the convicts
now employed on the Capitol Square, came
up for consideration, and was, on motion of
Mr.. Ellyson, made the special order for
Monday at o'clock.
| PUBLISHING THE CODE.
Mr.. Heaton offered joint resolution ap-
propriating $50, 900, or so much thereof as
may be needed, for the publishing and dis
| tribution of the new Code.
He was giving the reasons why this sum
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